, show starts 5.30pm Duration: 45 minutes Age Suitability: 16+ Content Warnings: Audience Participation, Distressing or Potentially Triggering Themes, Flashing Lights FREE CRISPS! Now I have your attention. I’d like to talk to you (interspersed with a bit of dancing) about the magic that is the salt and vinegar hula hoop. Especially the BIG HOOPS. Not experienced this magic before? Well you better get yourself along to FREE CRISPS. FREE CRISPS is a contemporary dance and spoken word piece about how a tarot card reading, sauerkraut and a degree in contemporary dance led me to realise how much I love salt and vinegar hula hoops and how they were the catalyst in breaking down the harmful ideology I had squirrelled away in the recesses of my overloaded brain. It’s no big surprise that humans have created a very complicated relationship with food. Add to that training as a professional dancer in the early 2010s and you’ve got yourself a lovely little combination of being INCREDIBLY HUNGRY but not allowing yourself to eat bread? It does not add up to an enjoyable experience. This solo explores the experiences leading up to this revelation through dancing, a bit of chatting and even games – with prizes (bet you can’t guess what they are?). It’s silly and serious as it wanders through the peculiar way we have made a vital part of our lives – food – so so complicated.
Venue: Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1NF.
Event type: PERFORMANCE.
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